The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-04
a BIRTHPLACE OF GIANTS.


street-Men and Women Ten Feet High
and Weighing Ton Ponderous Animals
to Fit-An ofthem Beautiful No well as Big.
There Is gateway under tenement
house on Forsyth street, near Houston. that
leads into the interior OF block where there
used to DO graveyard. Five-storied houses
have taken the place Of the graves and the
grass. and nm electric light company's wires
are strung over one side Of the block SO thickly
that the clothes-lines have to be run in other
directions. In the hollow made by the tene-
ments there is series Of buildings that have
grown into one by the accretions of years.
These buildings are inhabited by curio %
race. There are mon OF all lengths and weights,
from four or five feet to ten and fifteen, and as
heavy as ton. There are women. too, some
white. clean. and well-formed. with shapely
limbs. and cloaks and tunics like those Of Mrs.
Cesar and other ladies who set the fashions
some years ago. In some rooms Of the main
building families and their animals have been
living together In harmony for months. There
are children with wings like Cupids and dane
ing girls whose skirts are always at the same
angle. Dianas with the same number of arrows
in their quivers from one weeks end to an
other. and Mercurys always balancing on the
Same big toe and never topping over.
One room with an extra high ceiling Is in
habited by giants. Not q man In the room Is
tall They are muscular race. and the smaller
mon who come and 60 In the room take great
pride In the sTeling muscles the sturdy bones
n this inner SaildIns ere not 50 pig. but they
Women ever Voluntarily stray out Of tho Build
Ing and e the that + Sny sw
they do not go OF their own accord. At long
Intervals they go from their huge rooms out
where they perch on various pedestals. roofs,
and arches, and see their old home NO more.
Adjoining the large house where these men
smaller building. where, they are made from
zinc. copper bronze. and other materials, and
ful 10 Of drawings and models. and further up
ordinary live men at work lacking together the
legs, chests. arms. heads. and accoutremonts
in the world and be perched or. high to be
gnzed at OF men. Thousands OF pounds OF
mens house, s every year and come out
ing statues and beautiful animals The next
the Missouri Of Council Bluffs and view the
river and n railroad.
figures that the Arion Society viii put on its
new building up so%n a. b Baere5 was the
made. and the figures are now almost finished.
and stand twice as high as q tall man., Tho
figures represent Prince CARNIVAL having
does not hiG s his shapss ess No natter how
cold 1t will be when he Is perched neal, the
have any thicker, stockings than when, he
emerged from the hot sand Prince Carnival
is made Of zinc. and he, his family. and friends
Wallet. a zinc harp. ZINC harpster. and some
roas pars s 81 sSs " bad9
1t takes several months to turn out zinc or
according to the material and degree Of finish
required There must be dsa n wings FIRST and
casts are polished and fastened together. The
joints are soldered,. the tack holes covered
zinc more, and bronze most, A bronze statue
costs most because 1t Is hardest to make and
hardest to put together. The material also
zinc. and lead must be used. Zinc statues
can be soldered together. while bronze legs
and arms are tackled on after being fitted into
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malleablo. and would give indents where
brphse man wSoiq s.end sia on AK we'll maid
The superintendent Of castings ia. we'll
known Frenehman and makes upward OF $4,000
year He does his work by contract , an Snd the
cebs in making q good casting the FIRST time.
He has q long trimming at the business and Is
true artist The other men are paid from s25
to $50 week, the burnishers and assistants
getting less. The men who put the castings
together have TO be careful to mako the joints
even and not noticeable. but the main SUCCESS
casting. Almost all the work men are foreign.
Tho proprtetoris German. the casters French
men. the designers Germans and Frenchmen,
and the moulders and filters Germans.